Mobile games and console games are two different branches of video games.
Consoles have larger screens and high-quality graphics. Mobiles, on the other hand, are easy to use, accessible, and can be carried around and played anywhere.
Most mobile game development companies make games in genres such as casual, hyper-casual, puzzle, arcade, MOBA, battle royale, and RPG games, whereas console game developers focus more on making AAA big-budget games in genres such as action-adventure, storytelling, RPG, shooting, FPS, and fighting games.
In terms of graphics, console games are generally more advanced than mobile games, thanks to their powerful hardware. Because of this, console games also tend to have more complex gameplay mechanics and storylines than mobile games.
But not anymore, as Apple has shown.
Apple is introducing Resident Evil 4 to its iPhone 15 Pro models because it knows it can.
To market the new phones, Apple partners with Capcom to bring both the 2023 Resident Evil 4 and the 2021 Resident Evil Village.
What Apple did here, is trying to showcase its A17 Pro's six-core GPU, which Apple claims is 20% faster than its predecessor.
With added hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading support, the improved GPU capabilities make console-quality gaming possible.
The games aren't exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, because Apple has also made them compatible with iPads that are equipped with an M1 or later, and all Apple silicon Macs 3.
While bringing the two AAA games to mobile is an achievement on its own, the games' performance on the iPhone 15 Pro models isn't actually optimal, and that the experience of playing the game is less than satisfactory.
The games do show high-quality graphics that can be parred to console, but on mobile, the games that are originally meant to be played with a controller, don't fit well with touchscreen-only devices.
For a better gaming experience, players have to purchase and use a separate controller, or use a controller adapter on top of paying the full game.
Despite that, the experience is still likely to be a worse than that of the two games when on console.
